Um Saad - Ghassan Kanafani

Author: Ghassan Kanafani Category: Short story and novel Publisher: Dar Al-Taqwa Publication date: 2016 Cover design: Regular paper Number of pages: 77 About the novel: Umm Saad, "who now stands under the low roof of misery in the front row of the battle, and pushes, and continues to push more than everyone else." This is how Ghassan Kanafani, the Palestinian political novelist, introduced the Palestinian mother when he wrote the novel in 1969. As if "Umm Saad" is the point where Kanafani's previous novels intersect. She is the lost character in his previous novels, the implicit one who hides behind the lines and intertwines in the characters, and only announces herself when she is integrated into the historical reality.